Harvard University

Georgetown University Law Center

Harvard Kennedy School

Boston Latin School

Boston University School of Law

Assistant Director for In-House Corporate Counsel, Compliance, and the Private Sector

Demi Health

Co-Founder

Originally founded in Washington DC as a part of the initial cohort of Georgetown Venture Lab, QB Strategies, LLC was a DC and Los Angeles-based social impact consulting practice that used data-driven, people-centered strategies to help corporations, political candidates, and nonprofits “bend the arc of the moral universe” through innovative approaches to corporate social responsibility, measuring impact, grant writing, leadership development, advocacy, and research. 

A sample of client work includes: Niantic, the makers of PokémonGO and other AR games (consulted for flagship environmental campaign which granted funding to nonprofits all over the world to get game players to join beach or park clean up efforts), Ashoka Changemakers (supported two social impact competitions with corporate partners), The Georgetown Pivot Program (trained formerly incarcerated individuals working to become entrepreneurs on networking skills); Community Justice Project (won over $2 million in grants for movement lawyering in Miami), Institute for Education Leadership (consulted on creating new programming for refugee and immigrant students), and Embark Vet (DEIB training ~ AAPI History Month).

QB Strategies LLC

Founder & Principal

Served as a Senior Community Organizer for the Washington D.C. affiliate of Planned Parenthood; charged in providing strategic advice and oversight in the development, implementation, management, and evaluation of grassroots mobilization initiatives including voter education and engagement activities for evolving state and federal legislative issues.  Responsibilities and program oversight includes:

■ Provide strategic advice and oversight in the development, implementation, management, and evaluation of grassroots mobilization initiatives including voter education and engagement activities, with a special emphasis on the minority and immigrant communities served by Planned Parenthood, for evolving local, state, and federal legislative priorities.
■ Contribute as an organizational representative to community partners, civic leaders, and other stakeholder groups, including speaking on a reproductive justice roundtable with Senator Mark Warner (D – Virginia) in July of 2018.
■ Engage in public speaking at rallies, events, and conferences on issues of reproductive rights and intersectional feminism
■ Lead PPMW's electoral work in the District of Columbia,  Virginia, Maryland leading up to and during the campaign season by directing mid- to large-scale community canvasses, phone banks, rallies, and other voter engagement events.
■ Recruit, train, and organize volunteers and organizational advocates tasked with engaging legislators.

Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, DC, Inc.

Senior Community Organizer: Public Affairs Team

Contributed towards an energetic voter outreach initiative as a Campaign/Organizing Fellow on behalf of the Ralph Northam for Governor campaign in 2017; highlights include:

■ Effectively reached out to over 1,500 members of the community by knocking on doors and initiating calls to registered voters.
■ Developed and advocated for the implementation of a strategic, multi-phase plan to engage over 200,000+ Asian-American voters across the region, a tactic that contributed in part towards Northam’s decisive, 9-point victory in the general election.

Ralph Northam For Governor

Campaign Organizing Fellow ~ Field Organizing

■ Conducted multiple international anti-corruption investigations as part of a legal team 
■ Published an article in Law360 on conflicting mineral regulations in the U.S. and the E.U.  
■ Won asylum for two Salvadoran immigrants seeking refuge in the United States due to escalating gang violence in their home country (500+ pro bono hours in 4 months)
■ Served as a panel speaker on behalf of the Women's Bar Association of D.C.  on the legal framework of conflict mineral reporting.
* Law clerk is Miller & Chevalier's title for associate attorneys who were in the process of undergoing the DC bar's waive-in process, an administrative process which can take a year or more. I was already barred in Massachusetts at the time of my employment

Miller & Chevalier Chartered

Associate Attorney and Law Clerk* ~ International Department

■ Initially obtained a position as a Summer Associate for Miller & Chevalier Chartered with responsibility for conducting legal research, drafting parts of motions, and interviewing witnesses as part of an anti-corruption investigation in India.

Summer Associate: International Department

Founded the Georgetown Mental Health Alliance while attending Law School; successfully mobilizing and leading a student-based Mental Health Task Force of 15 charged with developing a report on mental health service accessibility on campus.  

■ Strategically recruited students involved in the student government and student body to diversify group competencies. 
■ Designed a student survey, in collaboration with the Mental Health Alliance, and collected pertinent data to better understand student opinions, experiences, and priorities for mental health. 
■ Initiated outreach to campus leaders, professors, and administrators to garner administrative support for the campaign.  
■ Efforts ultimately led to the 2017 approval and construction of a new mental health care facility at Georgetown Law, which included the hiring of more than double the number of mental health practitioners on campus.

Founder and Organizer: Georgetown Law Mental Health Alliance 

■ Interned with the Criminal and Fraud Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in D.C.; drafted a response to a motion to dismiss a high-profile healthcare case. Additionally, aided in documentation of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations.

U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division

Legal Intern: U.S. Department of Justice- Fraud Section, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Unit

Funded by the Program in Criminal Justice (Professor Christopher Stone) at Harvard Kennedy School: 

■ Conducted extensive interviews and authored a policy report to create Nigeria’s first Witness Support Task Force; a government-backed group dedicated to addressing and eliminating pre-trial detention and torture activities.  
■ Assisted the staff of Attorney General of Lagos State, Adeola Rahman Ipaye (currently the Deputy Chief of Staff to the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari) over the course of this 3-month projec

Office of the Attorney General of Lagos State, Nigeria

Policy Intern: Ministry of Justice, Lagos, Nigeria

■ Researched use of satellites and crowd-sourcing platforms as a means of preventing and stopping mass atrocities in Sudan as part of the Mass Atrocities Response Operations Project.

Mass Atrocities Response Operations Project

Research Intern

■ Obtained an internship with AALDEF during the summer of 2010 and tasked with designing and disseminating surveys to Asian immigrants in NYC to obtain data on affordable housing options.

Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund

Housing Rights and Land Use Intern

Recruited by International Bridges to Justice to design a donor communication and digital fundraising campaign with responsibility for overseeing the nonprofit’s social media presence. Highlights include: 

■ Established a digital fundraising partnership with Razoo (an early crowdfunding platform) to finance a project specifically focused on combating pre-trial detention; effectively raising over $35K in < 3 months.  
■ Overcame technical challenges inherent to the management of multiple websites by self-learning basic HTML coding, Google Analytics, and Hootsuite.   
■ Oversaw the organization’s social media strategy; increasing nonprofit engagement and chatter on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.  
■ Researched and developed electronic learning modules on different topics, such as eye-witness identification for the organization's network of public defenders overseas.
■ Acted as the official Geneva office liaison to the China office and assisted with programming goals.

International Bridges to Justice

Development and Communications Intern

■ Selected to serve as an Intern for Greater Boston Legal Services Welfare Law Unit and tasked in analyzing documents in a class action lawsuit on behalf of disabled welfare recipients against the Massachusetts State Welfare Agency.

Greater Boston Legal Services

Welfare Law Unit Intern

Founded and organized the Harvard College Campaign for Ethnic Studies; providing leadership during a successful advocacy campaign that pressed Harvard University to establish a secondary field in Ethnic Studies after nearly 40 years of student organizing efforts. 

■ Sought out guidance and mentorship from nationally-renowned Community Organizing Professor, Marshall Ganz, in the development of a highly-effective organizing strategy.  
■ Unified a coalition of 20+ undergraduate/graduate students who successfully gained university-wide support from faculty members, current students, and Harvard alumni. 
■ Gained credibility with Harvard decision-makers after obtaining financial support from a prominent alumnus who donated funds to solidify a professorship for the newly identified minor.

Founder and Organizer: Harvard College Campaign for Ethnic Studies

■ Obtained an internship with the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of the Chief Financial Officer; contributing towards various accounting, finance, and management assignments.

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of Labor - Office of the CFO - Intern

Secured a high-profile internship with Senator Kennedy's Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee during the summer of 2006. Highlights include: 

■ Researched and wrote memoranda on education policies specifically focused on access to education for lower-income students.
■ Organized events and meetings with Members of Congress and other policymakers on Capitol Hill.  
■ Participated in and coordinated the Stanley Miller Fellowship.

Quinnie Lin, J.D / M.P.P